- OVOV Plan on Deck, commissioners and the usual crowd discuss: I Heart has a great post covering last night’s One Valley One Vision meeting at the Planning Commission. The commissioners heard from staff about Santa Clarita complying with AB 32 (encourage but not require everyone to pollute less), Santa Clarita’s water supply by the year 2050 and several bike lanes being eliminated for wider roads under the plan. I HEART SCV
- Cities across California are scrambling to spend redevelopment agency dollars before Jerry Brown kills the popular and controversial programs. Some cities even held emergency spending sessions on Martin Luther King day. At issue: property tax that critics say is handed over to private for-profit developers that the Governor argues is better spent on hard-hit schools, fire, police, and counties LA TIMES, SAC BEE
- Joe Messina’s strike against Gloria Mercado-Fortine ends not with a bang, but a whimper as Hart District counsel finds she committed “no overt wrongdoing” between her employment with a charter school and her elected position. The contents of the Hart counsel’s findings are protected as attorney-client privilege, but Messina could always go to the FPPC if he desires SIGNAL
- CLWA wants to replace a water pipe in the Copperhill/Newhall Ranch area to increase water pressure for some residents. The $10 million plan won’t kick off for two years though SIGNAL
- KHTS talked to the City’s disaster preparedness person about yesterday’s much clicked-on superstorm story in the Daily Brief. She doesn’t come out and say it, but you get the feeling the 500 year ARkstorm could turn Santa Clarita Valley into Santa Clarita Lake, erasing all our water problems and angst over development in an instant KHTS
- Bomb scare in Valencia over frozen food. The bomb squad came out and buildings were evacuated. It ended when the bomb squad x-rayed the suspicious pacakage and found it contained food KHTS
- The real estate market in Southern California was really soft in December, with median prices increasing only 0.3% from December 2009. Sales were down 12.5% compared to the same time period and even new homes didn’t sell says the LA TIMES
- Stimulus Act funds new lights for City streets and parks. The induction lights will give off more of a white glow than our typical yellowish lights and should save the city about $25,000 per year in electrical bills CITY BRIEFS
- Buck McKeon has quickly become the #1 booster of Guantanamo Bay, having lead a delegation there recently. Yesterday he told KPCC that he doesn’t think the extra-legal detention facility in Cuba will inspire recruits to join “the Al Queda.” He promises to fight any effort to close the facility KPCC, POLITICO
- Speaking of McKeon, he’s being targeted heavily by Organizing for America, the DNC’s main outreach machine to Obama’s 2008 voters, over the health care repeal vote today. OFA advised subscribers via email and text in the 25th District to call McKeon’s office and tell him not to vote to repeal the health care law, which passed last year LINK
- I Heart’s Inside SCV Column for February INSIDE SCV
- LTE Writer says texting is ruining student’s minds and destroying their already-meager academic skills “The classroom has become a social hall for undisciplined, texting students who have no regard for anyone or anything except themselves,” she writes LTE
A decade of the Valley’s town square · 2006–2015
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